Oren Shuster is the co-founder, director and Chief Executive Officer of International Medical Cannabis (IMC), a multi-country operator in the medical cannabis sector headquartered in Israel, and is one of Israel’s prominent experts in the field of medical cannabis. Oren brings more than two decades of proven entrepreneurial experience in founding and growing companies in […]
As a fully qualified attorney with years of professional experience in a management consultancy firm, Sita advises firms in the fields of food supplements, OTC, RX products, medical devices and orphan medicinal products. Sita is also the founder and Secretary General for the European Medicinal Cannabis Association, the Brussels-based industry body which advocates for European […]
Itai is the Head of Marketing and Business Development for the Bazelet Group. The Bazelet Group is the largest private group of companies that has been active in the Israeli market since 2011. He leads all of the Group’s marketing activities for the products and services that Bazelet offers to the cannabis industry and end […]
Álvaro has more than 15 years of experience in the Latin American market, including infrastructure projects and finance, management strategy, team development, and mergers and acquisitions. He manages the expansion of Khiron Life Sciences Corp., a Canadian integrated medical cannabis company with core operations in Colombia. Previously, Álvaro acted as head of business development for […]
Viviane is a cannabis leader in Brazil. She is the founder and CEO of Dr. Cannabis, launched in early 2018. Dr. Cannabis is the leading digital marketplace focused on making legal medical cannabis treatment more accessible and generating data insights from a collaborative community of doctors and patients in Latin America. The company is helping […]
Curt is the CEO of Anden Naturals, a vertically integrated producer of cannabinoid based products and API based in Lima, Peru. As CEO, Curt’s leads the development of the company’s strategy, communicates with government agencies and the public and ensures that the company maintains high social responsibility wherever it does business. Anden Naturals is the […]
Dr. Jordan Lewis serves as the Executive Chairman and CEO of Fotmer Life Sciences, a global cannabis cultivator and one of the world’s largest exporters of medical-grade cannabis. Under Dr. Lewis’ leadership, Fotmer has delivered over three metric tons of medical cannabis flower from its Uruguayan facilities to Europe, APAC and Israel over the last […]
John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market, has built the natural and organic grocer from a single store in Austin, Texas in 1978, into a Fortune 500 company, which went public in 1992, and was purchased by Amazon in 2017. Today Whole Foods Market is a top U.S. supermarket with more than 510 […]
Steve Fox, Esq., is of counsel at the Denver-based law firm Vicente Sederberg LLC and is the Managing Partner of VS Strategies, an affiliated cannabis policy consulting firm. He has been at the center of cannabis policy reform in the United States for 17 years through his works as director of federal policy for Marijuana […]
Highlights from the 2019 MJBizDaily Awards Gala & Afterparty […]
From conference sessions with cutting-edge content, to a show floor packed with over 1,300 exhibitors, there’s plenty to help you make the most of the final hours of MJBizCon 2019! […]
Highlights from the official start of MJBizCon, with general sessions and the opening of the show floor. Returning add-on networking events included the Minorities in Cannabis Luncheon and Empowering Women in Cannabis Reception. Conference sessions kicked off, covering important industry topics such as New Cannabis Markets, Money Matters: Finances and Banking, International Cannabis Markets, Regulatory […]
Ray Gracewood is Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications at Organigram Inc., a leading publicly-traded licensed producer of cannabis in Canada. Previously the Senior Director of Sales and Marketing for Moosehead Breweries Ltd., Ray has led Organigram’s strategic approach to the adult use recreational market in Canada as well as stewarding the company’s corporate and […]
A recap of the MJBizCon Week pre-conference programming from Monday and Tuesday, including the inaugural Associations Day and Investor Intelligence Conference, as well as the returning Marijuana Business Crash Course, Science Symposium and Hemp Industry Daily Forum add-on programs. Plus, highlights of what to look for as MJBizCon 2019 officially kicks off today! […]
